Posts Tagged ‘Climategate’

What are we learning from the row over the statistical methods used by rock-star Leftish economist Thomas Piketty in his new "Tax everyone, everywhere" book? Well: nothing we've not learned before. Th...
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Until now I’ve never written about global warming. That’s because I’m a coward. I don’t want “climate experts” sneering at me because I dare venture an opinion without knowing as much as t...
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It’s a bit of a shock to realise that this blog has now been going for seven years. In the dog-year world of blogging, that makes it almost geriatric. A few are more venerable yet, standing like oak...
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Like Anthony Watts, I have only recently discovered the best, funniest and truest ever thing written about Climategate: an hilarious essay, published in 2009, by author Michael Kelly. It begins: Like ...
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FOIA – the anonymous leaker who brought the Climategate and Climategate II emails to light has emerged briefly from the shadows. He has released to selected parties (not me) the password to the ...
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Should the state be doing more to protect the interests of the corrupt, powerful, mendacious, rapacious, self-serving establishment? I don't think so. And neither, I suspect, do the vast majority of t...
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Here's a paradox. The proportion of Americans who say that global warming is under way is growing. But this is largely for the wrong reasons. A new opinion poll by the National Survey of American Publ...
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As someone who wants the debate about climate change to be open and honest, I should say this, in the wake of the Heartland Institute document scandal. I am absolutely appalled that a rogue activist, ...
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I wasn't going to write about yesterday's Heartland Institute shock-horror revelations in the Guardian because I thought it was a non-story. "Independent libertarian think-tank spends trifling* sums o...
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Like my esteemed colleague Dan Hannan, I have a pathological aversion to posting up videos of myself on my blogs. In this case, however, I feel I must make an exception. It's not often you get to appe...
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